lebasketbawl.com - 6/13/2009
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Pau Gasol was always questioned about his toughness. Especially in last year’s NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics. He was also questioned about his toughness against point guards! Have you ever seen him dunked by Baron Davis?
He struggled badly last year against Kevin Garnett in ...
boston.com - 6/15/2009
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boston.com —
ORLANDO, Fla. - Doc Rivers doesn't live that
far from Amway Arena. The Celtics coach has been...
offered tickets to NBA Finals games between the Magic and Lakers, too. But without the Celtics being involved, the admitted poor loser didn't plan on ...
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Just too painful to watch
sports.espn.go.com - 6/11/2009
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sports.espn.go.com —
We asked J.A. Adande to tell us something
he's watching for in Game 4: J.A. Adande, ESPN.com:...
Time to talk touches. Again. Pau Gasol should be getting more shots. We've been through this before. It was only one series ago that Gasol lodged a rare (for ...
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Daily Dime: Can the Magic pull even? - NBA
sports.yahoo.com - 6/12/2009
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sports.yahoo.com —
Los Angeles Lakers 99, Orlando 91 (Los Angeles
leads series, 3-1) Wow, that was some defense. It...
didn't seem to come up much during the game, for the usual reasons (defense isn't much of a talking point, unless teams aren't playing it), but ...
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Behind the Box Score, where the Lakers put the hammer down
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Eurobasket 2009 fearless predictions VIII: Titanic vs. Hindenburg headline matchup
Ball in Europe - European Basketball Blog —
... All the worst-case scenarios are coming to fruition for Spain: In the past, the team has been chastised for a general low stamina, for not finishing games. For years in the NBA, Pau was labeled “soft,” “especially in last year’s finals against the Boston Celtics”; well, nothing says soft like doing a scarecrow impression in front of another Asik jam. Ricky Rubio is now universally billed as unripened and “ ...
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sports.yahoo.com 6/11/2009 — It might be time to re-consider how much we howl about Pau
Gasol
Coming off the heels of a Game 3 that seemed all-too-typical
amongst Laker losses, the usual bleating (with yours truly tending to yell
loudest, above all) about the lack of Pau
in ...
5 Reasons why the Lakers will be your NBA Champions
with-malice.com 6/4/2009 — It all comes down to this. If both teams in the Finals play to their peak, then LA will win. The thing that makes it all interesting tho' is that LA's peak has been a hard summit to climb throughout the playoffs thus far.
So... what's key?
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Pau Gasol admits to being a total pussy
redsarmy.com 6/10/2009 — It's no secret that Pau Gasol is soft. But this one takes the cake. He basically announced to the world that he's a total pussy by saying Dwight Howard is too physical . “(Dwight Howard) is allowed to do physically a
couple more things here at home,’ Gasol said after the ...
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sports.yahoo.com 6/10/2009 — Was Dwight Howard allowed to get away with more physical play because the Orlando Magic were at home Tuesday night? Los Angeles Lakers forward Pao Gasol thinks so, according to a report in the Los Angeles Daily News. "(Dwight Howard) is allowed to do physically a couple more things here ...
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